Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

7.12. SOA GOVERNANCE ORGANIZATIONAL MODELING STEPS

The following basic steps will help you define an appropriate SOA Governance organization model. The key to this process is identifying critical SOA governance gaps, both process and policy gaps, and then creating a stakeholder model to help close those gaps. The stakeholder model will define the governance organizational model based on key governance processes.

• Define governance process gaps first; do not begin with an organizational structure.

• Define critical policy categories that support IT and SOA principles; do not get too granular with fine-grained technical policies yet.

• Once you have defined key governance processes and key categories of SOA policies, ask the following questions:

  • What stakeholders should participate in those key governance decisions?

  • Who should have input?

  • Who should review and approve key governance decisions?

  • Who should approve?

  • Who has authority and accountability for the decision?

• These answers will lead to the organizational view of SOA governance, as well as the composition and chairmanship structure for governance bodies.

• Define a simple governance organizational structure first based on functional coverage for governance processes and key policies.

• Once you are satisfied, begin to assign stakeholders to roles on each of the boards.

• Last, put the political alignment dressing on the model and determine chairmanship models.

• Finally, go back to the SOA governance assessment and confirm you have closed the key ...